We stay in Chatham every year. We always rent a house with another family (8 total kids/adults). We were pleased with the inside of the home. It seemed newly remodeled, spacious rooms, nice kitchen. Overall, we liked the inside. There were a few minor things. One being the basement was not finished but considered a useable room. There was a big hole in the floor so we didn’t want the kids down there. The basement was a nice selling point for us with 4 kids. Second, there was no vacuum accessible. Although that seems like a minor thing, we like to keep the house clean. Having kids running in and out and beach sand, the floors were disgusting. There was a broom and no dust pan so that didn’t help.
Upon arrival, we walked into the yard and the deck was absolutely disgusting. It was covered in dirt and mold. So bad that none of us would even sit outside. The yard looked like it wasn’t maintained at all. Im not sure how you remodel a home and keep the yard, in a place like the Cape, like it hasn’t been touched in years. I did reach out to the Property Manager who sent someone out. Im not sure who came but they told the PM the outside was fine. After sending pictures, they sent a cleaning crew out to power wash and scrub the deck. After all was said and done, it took 3 full days to get it properly taken care of so that’s 3 days we didn’t get to enjoy the outside of the house.
We were all unanimous in saying we would not re-rent that house.